Improvement in ticket-cases



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T. VAN KANNL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent N o. 83,807, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TICKET-CASES.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and n iaking part of the same..

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To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, T. VAN KANNEL, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Card or Ticket-Cases; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, suiiicient to enable others skilled in the art to which my improvement appertains, to fully understand and construct the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure I is a perspective view of my limproved card or ticket-ease;

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same;

Figure 3 is an under-side view of the sliding lid; and

Figure 4 is an end view of the case.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

I am well aware that a card or ticket-case, out of which tickets or cards may be pushed, one at a time, is not new, such having been patented by F. A. Lamontagne, September 25, 1866, and such I do not broadly claim to have invented. But my improvement consists in the construction of such cases in such a manner as to save a great deal of labor and expense. Also, in the combination therewith of a whistle, to indicate to the driver when to stop, or to be used as a dogiwhistle.

A, in the drawings, represents the hollow case, which I prefer to make in book-shape, not only for the appearance, but so as to use what represents the back, B, of the book for a whistle. y l

The case A is made of any size, so as to suit the di'erent purposes for which it is to be used, a streetrailroad-oar ticket-case being, of course, smaller than a card-case.

C is a sliding lid, forming part of the upper side of the case, and having grooved edges c, (see iig. 3,) which seize over'the edges a and b of the upper side of the case. A.

The under side of the lid O is provided with small points, d, which maysbe formed by driving them up out of the lid itself` A coiled spring, I), is secured to the bottom of the ease, as shown at e, tig; 2, and on the free end of this spring is secured a plate, f, on which the cards or tickets rest. -But this plate is not essential, as one part of my improvement consists in makingl the spring D of a size corresponding to the width of the case A, so as in itself toserve as a support for the cards', without any danger of their slipping off, side or edgeways. In this way, I am not even obliged to fasten the spring vto the case, as it will keep itself in place, which cannot be done with any other kind of spring.

As the tickets are usually thicker at their corners, owing to wear, than at other parts, it becomes necessary to enlarge the slot g at these parts, so as to form no obstruction to the passage of the ticket.

A projection, 71 rises from the lower edge of the slot g, and a space left between its point andthe upper edge of the slot equal to the thickness of a ticket. By this means, the ticket is allowed to pass out freely, while it eii'ectually prevents the next ticket below om passing out.

The end, F, of the ease being opposite to the'end, E, is, on its side edge, provided with two small semicir-` cular openings, i, which allow the points d of the lid to pass, when the latter is pulled back and out, for the purpose of pushing out a ticket,

The advantage of this construction of such a ease is too obvious to need much comment.

The back, B, ofthe case is hollow, and formed into a whistle, the end, j, serving for a mont-h-piece. The whistlel is formed like any common whistle.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire t6 secure by Letters Patent, is-

The card or ticket-case A, provided with the projection h in the slot g, and constructed in the manner as and for the purposes described.

T. VAN KANNEL.

WVitnesses:

ALEXR. A. G. KLAUGKE, RQBERT J. MALCOLM. 

